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...Russian debts to the U. S. as they figure in the recognition issue. Alert, aggressive, sharp-nosed Minister MacMurray, say his friends, could never have been induced by the President to take the obscure and unimportant post at Riga except as a stepping stone to Moscow 530 mi. eastward...
...York's disturbance centred in the region of the fertile Mohawk Valley which winds eastward across the State. 200 mi. north of the city. By regulation of the State Milk Control Board created last winter by the Legislature, the dairy farmers in this as in other sections of the State are paid on a sliding scale of prices, depending upon whether the milk is to be used for drinking (4¾ per qt.) or to go into ice cream, cheese or butter (1½). Independent farmers, complaining that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked...
...General Italo Balbo's 24 seaplanes had been not Italian but Japanese; if they had flown not across the Atlantic but eastward across the Pacific; if they had landed for a -goodwill" visit not at Chicago's lakefront but in Seattle's Puget Sound - they would have received a punctiliously polite welcome. But the average U. S. citizen would have felt about the same as the average Frenchman felt last month when Balbo's armada came roaring across the Alps out of Italy to blacken the skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry...
...summer of 1929 Mr. Williams and Mr. Catchings joined forces and raised a shower of fireworks over Wall Street. Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. had (besides ventures in Chicago's Foreman Bank and the Detroit banking situation) acquired a stake in Pacific Coast utilities. Turning eastward Mr. Catchings cast his eye on the great North American...
...sundown one day last week the U. S. S. Akron cast off from her stub mast at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., floated silently and moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared...